Topic: Black / Purple Glass Bust (Beethoven?)

[Jimfahy]

Another Gift From Xmas (I'm Easy to Buy For lol)

Any Advise on the Manufacturer? Its the darkest of Purples with a Ground Flat Base

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Cheers Again

Jim

[chopin-liszt]

 
I really do not think it represents Beethoven. He had a much more square sort of face, his eyes were wider set and his nose was not so long, it was flatter and squatter.
It looks a little more like Lizst, but could easily be a politician or some military something rather than a composer, or is there some reason you think it could be a musical tribute?

[JohnM]

Is it this one ....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-1970s-INGRID-GLASS-Beethoven-and-Mozart-Head-Bust-for-music-lovers/112204790402?hash=item1a1fed3a82:m:mQVsMcpXXIGh1AZZaU3bHww

- Ingrid Glass ?

[chopin-liszt]

Is that not still just somebody guessing who it is supposed to represent, even if it confirms Ingridglas as the maker.
It doesn't look anything like Mozart either.

[KevinH]

Liszt was generally less severe looking than Beethoven and had straighter and longer hair.

I think it is supposed to be Beethoven, but all the surface reflections in the image do not help to see the true features. Also, most Beethoven busts show shirt and jacket collars whereas the Ingrid version does not.

Maybe the Ingrid version was based on a bust similar to this Hagen one

[chopin-liszt]

Beethoven looked grumpy, or about to sneeze, not severe; and Liszt had a long face and big nose like this and he was decidedly scary.
I'd recognise the Hagen bust as Beethoven, the shape of the face is right, even if it does make him a bit romantic and good-looking. But it doesn't look anything like the glass ones.
We might have to agree to disagree.
I wouldn't have the glass thing, because I am very fond of Beethoven.

[KevinH]

I like Beethoven, too ... 

[Anne Tique]

Beethoven looked grumpy

True, but you can't say that the person in question's a ray of sunshine though...

[Paul S.]

perhaps being a miserable old git comes with the territory when you're a genius  -  either that or he was p----d off with saying to everyone - "sorry, didn't quite catch that"

[chopin-liszt]

He was a genius, so he was surrounded by relative morons all the time, it must have been frustrating. So must pianos not yet being robust enough.
But his music tells us what was going on, inside.